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MIT 弄出來的新玩意，靜態分析工具叫做 Space：「New MIT Scanner Finds Web App Flaws in a Minute」，MIT 官方的報導在「Patching up Web applications」這邊： In tests on 50 popular Web applications written using Ruby on Rails, the system found 23 previously undiagnosed security flaws, and it took no … Continue reading →

維基百科描述了當初沒有規劃多語系與多系統的帳號管理，而產生出來的 migrate 計畫：「Single-User Login provides access to all wikis」。 整個計畫到實作完成長達十年 (大約從 2004 年開始有想法)，接下來進入最後階段： This week, we will begin the process of renaming the remaining 1.46 million accounts – those which have not responded to all attempts at outreach. That process … Continue reading →

GitHub 從 2.3.github 特製版升級到 Rails 3：「Upgrading GitHub to Rails 3 with Zero Downtime」，其中切換的原因之一是維護成本： This choice has bitten us in the form of gem incompatibility, having to manually backport security patches, missing out on core framework performance and feature improvements, and … Continue reading →